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The Childhood of Jesus - Decoding the Apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Paperback)
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The Childhood of Jesus - Decoding the Apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Paperback)
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The mid-second-century apocryphal infancy gospel, the Gospel of
Thomas, which deals with the childhood of Jesus from age five to
age twelve, has attained only limited interest from scholars. Much
research into the story has also been seriously misguided -
especially study of the story's origin, character, and setting.
This book gives a fresh interpretation of the infancy gospel, not
least by applying a variety of new approaches, including orality
studies, narrative studies, gender studies, and social-scientific
approaches. The book comes to a number of radical new conclusions:
The Gospel of Thomas is dependent on oral storytelling and has far
more narrative qualities than has been previously assumed. The
narrative world depicted in the gospel is that of middle-class
Christianity, with the social and cultural ideas and values
characteristic of such a milieu. The gospel's theology is not
heretical--as has often been claime--but mirrors mainstream
thinking rooted in biblical tradition, particularly in the
Johannine and Lukan traditions. Jesus is portrayed as a divine
figure but also as a true-to-life child of late antiquity. The
audience for the Gospel of Thomas is likely to have come from the
rural population of early Christianity, a milieu that has received
little attention. A main audience for the story was children among
early Christians, making this--at least within Christianity--the
oldest-known children's tale. The book provides a Greek text and a
translation, and several appendixes on the story, along with other
early Christian infancy material.
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